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Show I News Notes j j It's a Privilege to Live in H Utah 1 ia3triivn?n3ra3i5MB. Salt Lake Municipal budget requests re-quests for 1926 indicate that the various var-ious Salt Lake City departments contemplate con-template for next year expenditures aggregating some $300,000 more than they are expending this year and approximately ap-proximately one-half million dollars in excess- of the estimated revenue for 1926. This means, that unless the more than three and one-half millions mil-lions requested in the tentative budget bud-get are materially cut, Salt Lake City faces an increase in either the municipal tax! levy or in water rates and other fees, or both, it is pointed out. Monticello The state road commission commis-sion and San Juan county have ordered or-dered the Verdue hill on the state highway cut down. This hill is the steepest place on the road from Salt Lake to Bluff. J. H. Neilson, district road engineer, has just returned from surveying the proposed road. The state and county have appropriated $1400 to build the new grade. County Coun-ty Road Agent Heber Frost will immediately im-mediately put a force of men to work on the new road. This will make travel south much safer and faster. Logan Marian P. Smith was instantly in-stantly killed and Burt Lovand seriously ser-iously burned when the powerhouse engineer of the Swan Creek Power company turned on the power half an hour ahead of time, catching the two men as they worked on the Una at Ideal Beach resort near Randolph. Myton Because of a general shortage short-age of turkeys throughout the country coun-try this year, turkeys are in good demand de-mand and buyers have already been in the basin making plans' for shipments ship-ments for the Thanksgiving trade. Salt Lake The pari-mutuel section sec-tion of the 1925 Redd horse racing act is unconstitutional, and the city is privileged to take steps to enforce its antigambling ordinance, Judge L. B. Wight held in the Third district court. He denied the injunction requested re-quested by the Utah State Fair association as-sociation and others who sought to restrain the city from interfering with the races. Salt Lake City. Ralph W. Seybolt, for whose execution the district court has four times fixed the date did not face the firing squad. Acting Act-ing Governor H. E. Crockett in conference confer-ence with the state board of pardons of which he is chairman decided to grant the convicted murdered of patrolman pa-trolman David Crowther his second reprieve. Ogden. The TJ. S. reclamation service ser-vice has not yet decided whether to build a high dam or low dam at American Amer-ican Falls, Idaho, hence the concrete operations on the dam have been suspended sus-pended for about thirty days, according accord-ing to W. L. Watis, secretary of the Utah Construction company, which is building the dam. The construction of the wall on the east side of Snake river has been completed to a height specified for the low dam. A coffer dam on the west side of the river also has been completed and excavation exca-vation is now under way. Park City. Drilling into a missed hole while working at the Silver King Coalition mine, Fred Sundell, 25, and Riley Lake, 26, were injured. Sundell was taken to a Salt Lake hospital. The charge struck him in the face, injuring his eyes. Lake suf-ferred suf-ferred slight injuries. Salt Lake City: Harry L. Finch and Arthur L. Barnes, Incumbents, and P. J. Moran and Berkley Olson were nominated as candidates for city commissioner, as shown by the complete com-plete returns in the primary election here. Alvin Keddington, present city auditor and Frank P. Walts were the successful candidates for auditor. Price. Believing that the salaries paid to city officials at the present as well as In the past, are so small as to be ridiculous and are not sufficient suf-ficient to so much as compensat them their bare expenses while ac ing in their civic capacities, members of the city council have decided on m increase for the next two years. Bingham. All employees of the various mines in this district are expected ex-pected to be inoculated against typhoid ty-phoid fever. Notices to this effect have been posted and the mining companies assume the expense. Ogden. W7ith the completion o Gibbons pass in Idaho, now under construction by the W. S. Craven Construction Con-struction company of Ogden, the automobile au-tomobile route between Ogden and Spokane, Wash., will be approximately approximate-ly 200 miles shorter than the present auto route, according to B. J. Finch, district engineer of the U. S. Bureau of public roads, who has returned from an inspection tour of Idaho. Salt Lake City. The application of the town of Huntsville for permission to charge a flat rate of $1 a month for each water service connection was dismissed by the public utilities commission com-mission of Utah on motion of the applicant. ap-plicant. Price. Prediction is made by O. P. Madsen. county agricultural agent, that the Carbon production of sugar beets during 1025 will approximate 6000 tons. This would make tho crop just twice that of 1321. which figures just disclosed show ran about 3000 tons. |